At Kindful Therapy, we value the breadth and depth of human experience. My approach focuses on exploring the rich tapestry of emotions, thoughts, and experiences that make up each individual's unique journey. Through fostering self-compassion, acceptance, and processing, we aim to increase awareness and understanding of the complexities of the human psyche. Join us in uncovering the layers of your inner world to cultivate growth and healing.
Culturally-aligned, psychoeducation, research, resources, skills-based tools and comprehensive assessments, customized treatment plans, resource connection and colleague consultation, ongoing trainings, and individualized therapeutic alliance and unconditional positive regard.
Clinical Experience and Training:
Working on the palliative care consultation and interdisciplinary team at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC): Prioritizing patients and collaborating with families and providers to ensure one’s loved one’s wishes are treated with priority, symptom management, preserving autonomy, holding space for and accepting and symptom/curative adjustments to expectations—providing an additional layer of support and counseling and radical acceptance.
Psychoeducation, anticipatory grief, emotional, psychological, emotional, and relational responses, and symptom management, psychosocial support, and facilitating discussions, prioritizing goals, and providing comfort, regarding care and intervening to prevent the onset of prolonged/complicated grief and treatment approaches.
At Columbia University’s Center for Complicated (Prolonged) Grief, I supported an application development, providing information around bereavement for parents, clinical research support, clinical procedures and interventions, professional training, connection to additional supports, and public outreach around grief and loss.
Authentic living, acknowledging reality, coping skills, processing, healing parts and reprocessing traumatic memories to integrate loss. Assessment (assessment tools and interviews and treatment manual and resources), addressing potential complications that may interfere with our natural adaptation process of adjusting to a new reality. Grief is understood as a form of love and manifests in a variety of emotions. Everyone’s experience of their grief landscape and process is unique. When a loved one dies, the loss of a (un)secure attachment figure affects us relationally: Intrapersonally, interpersonally, and with the world. You do not have to traverse this journey alone.
West Seventy Fourth (74th) Street Residence - West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing
Supportive counseling and psychotherapy, advocacy, + case management (drawing from MI, DBT, Rogerian, IFS, and CBT).
Case management for older adults with enhanced needs. Conducted needs assessments, set goals, designed interventions, created and evaluated annual service plans, and maintained bi-weekly resident progress notes.
Facilitated weekly reminiscence/life review group therapy - Developmental Stages - and music-based support and psychoeducation group.